You’ve sold your business, inherited the family fortune or won the lottery. Now what? It’s a nice problem to have – but a problem nevertheless.

In this edition of FT Wealth Quarterly, Charles Batchelor, the FT’s former deputy personal finance editor, looks at the challenges and the opportunities the SLM – the significant liquidity moment – can bring, while Michael Maslinski, a wealth consultant, offers advice on how to deal with the rush of interest from private bankers.